No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future. @ -Umar ibn Al Khattab
Don't beat yourself up about past bad decisions. Learn and move on.
Take a deep breath and blow away any nagging past thing you can't change. Exhale out the regret and think about what you are going to do right.
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future. @ -Steve Maraboli
Recovery is hard. Regret is harder. @ -Brittany Burgunder
Stop the cycle of regret by shutting down the terrible feeling thought the instant it comes to mind. Regret robs your self-esteem, decide to do better next time and leave the guilt and shame behind.
I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.  @ -D. Barant
Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, "I wish I had," or "I'm glad I did." @ -Zig Ziglar
Never regret anything from your past because one day, you'll look back and thank it for hurting you so much that you decided to become a stronger human being. @ -Faith Star
Should have, could have, wish I had, all are completely useless cycles of thinking that push you backwards. Only what you do know is what really matters.
It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret. @ -John Gay
Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experience, the worst days give lessons, and the best days give memories.
We all make mistakes in life that's true. Some little, some big, some simple and some more complex. Some mistakes we regret forever. @ -Rashard Royster
Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. @ -Marilyn Monroe
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds. @ -Libba Bray
Never look back and regret, look back and smile at what you have learned. @ -Michelle C. Ustaszeski
If you went back and erased all the mistakes you've made, you erase yourself.
Stop walking in the ruins of your past. You may have regrets, but regrets means you're wiser now than then. Focus on your purpose and future. @ -Brad Johnson
No regrets, just lessons.
Most of us have had regrets and recognize how they can hold us back or keep us stuck in life and relationships. Getting past "the Past" is important for anyone desiring to live beyond mistakes and the problems they make. @ -Ron Neff
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. @ -Oscar Wilde
Wasting time thinking about what you should have done just gets you stuck in the memories.
I will never regret you or say I wish I'd never met you. Because once upon a time you were exactly what I needed.
You are not that one bad decision you made years ago. It's time to blossom.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. @ -Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is not the experience of today that drives a person mad, it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. @ -Mason Cooley
Stop fretting about past decisions. They have provided valuable wisdom. Go forward without fear or regret. @ -Paul Martens
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live. @ -Thomas Sowell
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. @ -Hillary Clinton
If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, we have no today in which to be thankful.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets. @ -Marilyn Monroe
You can't change the past and you can't predict the future, but you can ruin the present by worrying about both.
Fight for the things you love. Live your life with no regrets.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. @ -Fulton Oursler
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person. @ -Rita Mero
Many people choose to dwell on their failures. This leads to unnecessary worrying, regret, shame, and stress. Instead of dwelling on the past, you can reflect on your experiences and use negative situations as a learning experience. @ -Morris Pratt
When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever, but I shall hold something which I have traded for it. It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price.
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it. @ -Pittacus Lore
Regrets will consume your life. Say yes now.
We all have stories we wish we didn't have tell, but they are necessary pieces in our puzzle.
There is no point in regretting for things that have happened but it makes a big difference to think about a solution or idea to change the unexpected outcome or effects of the choices made. @ -Lindsay Hallie
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. @ -Shannon L. Alder
We cannot always change what has happened to us, but we can change how we react and how we live in the future. Living with no regrets is living successfully. @ -Dr. Ellen Taricani
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. @ -Ann Landers
Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mistakes, but I am not ashamed to look for the reasons behind those mistakes. @ -Gianluigi Buffon
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence. @ -Julien Smith
There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you're useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose. @ -Sabaa Tahir
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been." @ -Kurt Vonnegut
Contemplating on what went wrong in the past will keep you in those feelings. Stop giving it your precious time, focus on what to do right now.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again. @ -Thisuri Wanniarachchi
You should never regret anything in life. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it is experience.
Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. @ -Roy T. Bennett
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. @ -Maurice Maeterlinck
Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had. @ -Brian Judge
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. @ -Jonathan Safran Foer
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned. @ -Enrique Iglesias
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. @ -Jim Rohn
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. @ -Oscar Wilde
Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done. @ -Chad Michael Murray
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. @ -Warren Buffett
The best way to stop a bad habit is to never begin it. @ -J.C. Penney
You can't read about push ups. You gotta do 'em. @ -Gary Vaynerchuk
Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped. @ -Charles Duhigg
Dwelling on what you did wrong is only helpful if you haven't learned a lesson.
Regret is an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. @ -Gerald Lawson Sittser
Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regrets, or fear. @ -Karen Salmansohn
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. @ -Sydney J. Harris
Don't live your life regretting yesterday. Live your life so tomorrow you won't regret today. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. @ -Charles Dickens
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was, same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy, would you want to? Was it worth it?  @ -Gavin Extence
Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.
I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened. @ -Yanni
I travel because I'd rather look back at my life, saying 'I can't believe I did that' instead of 'if only I had'. @ -Florine Bos
We are all guilty of the good we did not do. @ -Voltaire
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. @ -Jim Rohn
Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. @ -Colleen Hoover
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice. @ -Seth Godin
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. @ -Ted Chiang
Regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. @ -Charles Bukowski
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today. @ -Jonathan Larson
Saying yes is better than regretting.
We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, and unbiased. @ -Pema Chödrön
Swimming upstream feels hard but drowning in regret is harder.
It's completely fine to be different. Be different. You have one life. Live it with zero regrets.
The greatest mistake we can make is allowing the guilt of what we haven't yet achieved consume us. @ -Orly Wahba
It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had. @ -Deb Caletti
Regret, remorse, sorrow all emotions that can result in negative feelings. Only you can change your emotions to positive ones, you cannot change the past but you can change the future. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. @ -John Oliver Hobbes
How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. @ -Charlie Gilkey
Leave your regrets behind and look to the future.
Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret. @ -Laura Kasischke
Living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. @ -Jodi Picoult
Nothing is stronger than habit. @ -Ovid
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. @ -Katherine Mansfield
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. @ -Agatha Christie
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. @ -Mercedes Lackey
Kill your regrets and grow your ambitions.
They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop. @ -Eva Jessye
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. @ -Stefan Zweig
Regrets are not inherited. Regrets are those elements of life that seek to undermine our enthusiasm and our willingness to assume a life filled with new discoveries and the attainment of goals. Let not your regrets be your undoing but instead your vehicle to learn from what did not work. @ -Byron Pulsifer
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself. @ -Brittany Renee
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. @ -Paulo Coelho
Regrets are ridiculous, so I don't regret, no. @ -Nicole Kidman
The longer our trail of regrets, the more we tend to value the importance of making wise decisions. @ -Bob Santos
Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. @ -Lemmy Kilmister
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. @ -James Allen
Suffer the pain of discipline. Or, suffer the pain of regret.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. @ -Colin Powell
Reflect upon your present blessings (of which every man has many) not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. @ -Charles Dickens
There is no need to lament on the bygone failures, instead concentrate on things that you can change and let other things take their own course. @ -Robert Gallagher
Consider mistakes nothing more than detours on the way to success. Learn from them, and then go on. @ -Cindy Francis
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. @ -John Barrymore
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. @ -Will Durant
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. @ -Michael J. Fox
The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say 'Yesterday I was happy, Today I am not. @ -E. M. Forster
It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than think your way into a new way of acting. @ -Jerry Sternin
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. @ -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good. @ -William O'Rourke
Only in your imagination can you revise. @ -Fay Wray
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. @ -Robert Louis Stevenson
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. @ -Voltaire
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs. @ -Maggie Stiefvater
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. @ -William J. Clinton
Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in. @ -Katherine Mansfield
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. @ -Eliza Tabor
Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.
Remorse is the poison of life. @ -Charlotte Brontë
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. @ -William Throsby Bridges
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. @ -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits. @ -William James
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. @ -Confucius
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. @ -Sarah Frances Brown
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. @ -Arthur Miller
If you pick the right small behavior and sequence it right, then you won't have to motivate yourself to have it grow. It will just happen naturally, like a good seed planted in a good spot. @ -BJ Fogg
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement, yet it had been the truth. @ -Hermann Hesse
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. @ -Rafael Sabatini
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both. @ -Soren Kierkegaard
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. @ -Thomas S. Monson
Regrets only apply when we don't learn from a situation. No sense looking back, look forward with new knowledge and no regret. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
Don't allow yourself to become one who, nearing death, regrets what you might have done if only you had taken a few risks. We each have a purpose in life. @ -Gillian Stokes
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. @ -Elbert Hubbard
Do not spend your youth, wandering, lost in your field of daydreams; you may wake up spending the rest of your life stranded on the path of regretful nightmares. @ -Lucas Hunter
If we don't deal with the roots of our regrets, if we don't make the choice to start over, the costs of what we're missing out on can be enormous and will accrue exponentially over time. @ -Dave Ferguson
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. @ -George Halas
First, imagine taking the potentially regret – producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been. @ -Wayne Dyer
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. @ -Gustav Flaubert
People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can't change life from the outside. We all know this now. @ -James Altucher
Unless you're a real anomaly, your lifestyle has already been designed. @ -David Cain
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine — "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté." @ -Margaret Atwood
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. @ -Henry David Thoreau
Regret was from a lack of discipline.
Regrets are the tears of choices not made and of good deeds left undone. @ -Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. @ -Charles Dudley Warner
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. @ -Eric Hoffer
It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts. @ -Oscar Levant
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. @ -Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. @ -John O'Donohue
Successful people are simply those with successful habits. @ -Brian Tracy
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? @ -José Saramago
Regret making a mistake instead of regretting doing nothing at all.
The philosophy of lifestyle design is actually quite simple. It suggests that there are limitless ways to arrange and configure your life and that the logistics of living are much more flexible than most of us can imagine. @ -Clay Collins
The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch. @ -Scott Spencer
Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm, I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that. @ -Jude Watson
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. @ -Jonathan Larson
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. @ -Joe Vitale
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. @ -Henry David Thoreau
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. @ -Seth Godin
A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. @ -Charles Goodyear
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. @ -Katherine Mansfield
